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NHN Japan, Inc. [J] has announced the broadcast of the animated TV series “LINE TOWN,” featuring popular characters from their free smartphone calling and mail application “LINE,” on Tokyo TV Channel 6, starting from Wednesday April 3rd at 6:30 PM. This is the second time that LINE characters have been animated.

“LINE TOWN” [J] is an anime series in which Moon, Coney, Brown, James, Jessica, and Sally, the well-known characters from LINE Stamp, play out their human emotions in the setting of “Line Town.” Already from January of this year the 5 minute short animation “LINE OFLINE ~Salary Man~” has been broadcast on Tokyo TV, but “LINE TOWN” fills a 30 minute time slot from 6:30 to 7:00 PM. Also it is planned to be rerun on BS Japan starting from April 9th and air every week on Tuesday from 5:00 to 5:30 PM. What’s more, the opening and ending theme are both directed by the renowned Nakagawa Shoko.